之

之 in English

zhī particle, pronoun HSK 4: (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

Stroke order

Le caractère 之 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 之

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

8点半之前不会开始。

It doesn't start before eight thirty.
Jane在运动会之前把头发剃短了。

Jane had her hair cut short before the athletic meeting.
一个网页超过百分之九十的访问量是来自于搜索引擎的。

More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.
一切都在控制之中。

Everything's under control.
万事皆在上帝的掌控之中。

Everything is in the hands of God.
上床之前关灯。

Turn off the light before you go to bed.
上床睡觉之前请关灯。

Please turn off the light before you go to bed.
人是生而自由的，但却无往不在枷锁之中。

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

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